Thanks for posting that. I did not have health insurance last year because my payment would have been around $1,300/month. This year I have insurance which is costing me about $900/mo. ACA has been devastating for many individuals and families. Even effecting group Ins. Plans through employers to w...

["Now Hiring"] You post this meme in all seriousness? Some seriousness, certainly. Historically, a primary source of cheap unskilled and semi-skilled labour has been a pool of non-white not-quite-citizens. (I will let you cast your mind over US history for the succession of groups filling the role ...

(tangentially on/off-topic) I once worked in a small company in SF owned by a guy who's father immigrated here back then, had been a high-ranking minister in the Shah's regime. He was quite cultured -- practiced, very seriously, Zoroastrian religion. Yes. I worked in a shop with Parvīz, a co-worker...

Here's a model for a successful business, you fire all your hardworking immigrant labourers, hire white trash with drug and alcohol problems who haven't held a job in years. And see if your productivity improves. The imagine doing that on a country wide basis, one big giant recipe for disaster and ...

The US is selling $100 billion worth of weapons to Saudis, some of which the UN has found end up in ISIS hands. Obama administration arms sales offers to Saudi top $115 billion: report Trump to approve weapons packages to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain blocked by Obama This is something that has always perp...

Mexico, and other countries, have many ways to create a prolonged crisis for the Trump Admin if they choose to. And that is the plan it seems. Mexicans Vow to Fight Trump by Jamming U.S. Courts Which may not give the results they want. Going to court to argue their right to violate immigration laws...

The cost of hostility: Why the U.S. should treat Mexico as a vital partner Salon is living in a fantasy. NAFTA was beneficial to Mexico but not so for workers on either side of the border in terms of wages, loss of industry and the environment. Additionally, NAFTA has been very helpful to exacerbat...

Is everyone in her position being deported or just her? If not everyone then why her? I wondered this too. After this you can be sure that no known illegal is going to their check-in with ICE. But how many more like her are known by ICE? This is not a good first step on deportations, it runs agains...

ICE ought to be focusing its attention of those convicted of violent felonies. If you read the article, she walked into it at a scheduled check-in. I agree though, this does not start things off well. But then again, it is a law. If I were to surreptitiously cross into another country or overstay a...

It appears this is the first deportation case after the executive order to ramp-up ICE enforcement of the law. Protesters ring ICE in Phoenix: Could woman in custody be the first deported because of Trump's orders? Phoenix mom deported; police release names of 7 arrested while protesting her deporta...